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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind

If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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